Do you know who Taylor Swift is? Well I wrote my feature article about her! Now you’re probably wondering what that is… It’s almost like a newspaper but about something or someone you know very well about. So in fifth grade me and my classmates got to do these. As you can see, mine is about Taylor Swift. It was a long way but it was so much fun! I got to learn even more stuff about Taylor but I also learnt a ton of other things because I got to help my classmates with their feature articles.
We had to come up with something we know a lot about and a message. I picked Taylor Swift because I have been researching her and listening to her music since 2021. First, I came up with the title and subtitles. Then, I came up with three categories I was gonna write about. So then I started drafting all of my writing. When I was done with the drafting I started to plan how my formatting will look. After all that we finally got to the fun part. The photos. My class and I were in the lab and we were looking for pictures to put on our feature articles. Then we did the formatting. For me the formatting was kind of hard but at some point fun. I enjoyed picking a fun color and fonts for our articles!
Writing the feature articles was really fun but not only because of the pictures or the coloring. There was also a ton of teamwork and partnership. We got partnered a couple of times to comment on each other’s feature articles. It was so interesting to read everyone’s feature article and learn from the information that they wrote. If i would be very honest i thought doing Taylor Swift was a bad idea because no one really did their feature article on a specific person but once my classmates got to read my article before printing it out they made me feel much better about my feature article. Now, i didn’t have ALL of my classmates to read my article before printing but most of them read it and they all said that they loved it so much and didn’t know most of the stuff that i wrote. I was so happy and proud of myself when my classmates started telling me how well I wrote on the feature article.
After a while when my whole class was done with our feature articles we printed them out, did a little last minute editing and then the next day we had something called a publishing party. It wasn’t an actual party but we printed the articles and had a commenting sheet on our desks and then we had to walk around the classroom and read a couple of our friend’s articles and then comment on them. We had to do it with about five people. It was super fun because I mostly got the people I haven’t read before and I found out so many cool things about dance, dogs, rubik’s cubes, and Jewish culture. All of those feature articles were so interesting and I found out so many fun facts!
Overall, the feature articles were so much fun and I really enjoyed the process of the writing, formatting, adding pictures, and publishing. I’m so glad that I got to write about Taylor Swift and so thankful for the support that I got from my classmates.